Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-08-06
CURRENT EVENTS.
A Batavia IN. " harvester factory makes

/ Glasgow will be the scene OF an internal
ional exhibition next summer
/ Chlpaningo, Mexico, counts on a slight
earthquake shock almost every day.
/ An albine robin caught in Warren county
/ Pennsl lvania, few days ago has pink eyes
! Eightyfye per cent Of TIE 1d3f3 "super
fuous'' women il Massachusetts are widows
/ The French colony at Ella Cruz are rrers
ing TO celebrate the fall Of the bastile, July
II.
TIE rubber industry in this country afford:
employment to about twenty-five thousand
worknen.
/ In New York they have got saltwater
down to , cents Der glass; and the glasses are
large at thst
Washington, d. C.: was made the capital =
the United States on July 5, 1872 uinety-ivt
yeats ago FRIDAY,
Sunday bull-fzhts have been added to The
list of entertainments for visitors Al
Los Angeles, Cal
1t is estimated that there is one COW to everv
! four persons in this country, and yet milk
I always goes UP during drought.
An eastern preacher SAYS there is no Sab
bath west Of Chicago. He probably means
west of the eastern boundary of Chicago
There is a rage in the west for big hotels.
Several cities otherwise sensible arc planning
white elephants for the sheriff to gobhlc
The site OF the Gig of SGr bie.c, al com
prising a tract Of eight hundred acres,
was sold about twenty years ago for $500.
A Boston toy-dealer states that no toy pistol
has been cold for two years past, and thai
the manufacture of them has been abandon
ed.
A 3year-old negro boy in st. Augustine,
Fla, was handcuffed aud sent TO jail for
stealing four plums from garden a few days
ago.
Chicago may lose prestige as to hams and
sides and shoulders, but when 1t comes to
feet, it is admitted that Chicago must con-
TIME gteaS
A dressmaker in Portland, Ore, got itlad at
a neighbOr in the room beneath, and cutting
a hole in the floor, doused the other woman
while in bed with hot water.
Martin Luther's unpublished letters to
Brew and five letters from Melsncthon to the
swabian reformer Lschman, have been found
in an old school desk in Hebron.
If Nebraska people do not stop boring for
coal and gas before long they will prick the
oriental feet of China with diamond drill aud
give some almond eyed mandarin the lock-
jaw
The Spartans were wont to get theg helots
drunk as a frightful example to their sons.
Nowadays in this country the sons generally
prefer to pose as frightiul examples for their
pas.
Among the old New England blue laws was
Dne reading: mo one shall eat niincc pies,
lance, play cards, or play any instrument OF
music except the drum, trumpet or jews
harp"
The sons of wealthy people in New York
have taken to lew ing upon jewellers, liquor
dealers, and other tradesman ty demanding a
commission for infueLcing trade in their
favor.
A Delaware man rolled of his veranda to
the ground, distance of twenty-one inches,
to make fun for the BABY, and Tie third time
he tried 1t he broke his neck and left baby
satherless.
Philal phia arrests tobacconjsts for expos
ing the pictures Of cigarette girls in their
windows. 1t must be und .rstood that to-
bacc1nist's shop Is neither an art gallery nor
i hosiery store.
Through coincidence, perhaps, twenty
seven people were killed at Pesth. July by
al exp osion. The incident Looks, however
as if The American eagle was stretching its
wings across the sea.
A Chicago scientist announces his solution
# the problem OF aerial navigation, and pro-
oIses to start at once to the north pole. II
he makes his excursion rates low enough his
enterprise will be Il brilliant success.
A Young. scientist just graduated from Yale
has estimated that every hen in the country
scratches over two acres Of ground every
year, and that the leg power in gross would
run thrash:ng machine for two weeks.
A Detroit citizen is building novel tobog-
gan slide for ba:hers at his bath houses. To-
boggans on rollers will carry the bathers
down the slide into shoal water, giving q
plunge that must be taken to be appreciated
The state government of Sonora has con-
vokcd the Indians who live on the borders Of
the Yaqui and MAYO rivers to meet soon for
the purpose OF making partition Of the lands
now held in common by the tribes OF that
region.
Boston man who is holding half county
in Da>ota for speculation has beeu taxed for
four school houses, three bridges, a court
house, a jail aud ten miles Of highway i'm
provements. That's the way they salt"
spectators out there.
Probably the New Haven young lady who
married Chinaman knows what she did 1t
for. The problem would battle any one else.
She may not think it, but the first almond
eyed baby to star her in the face will make
her sick of her bargain.
A beautiful geyser has belche1 forth at the
Upper Basin, near Mammoth Hot Springs,
Wyoming. 1t throws a stream into the air
$50 feet In height. 1t is located two hundred
Yards from the Spasmatic, and is one Of the
grsndest on the formation.
An inclination OF one inch in fifteen miles
is sufficient to give motion to water An in
cIination of three inches per mile in a
straight, smooth channel will give a velocity
Of three miles per hour, while three feet per
mile wonld produce torrent
In s. John county. Florida, few days ago,
while little 2-year-old girl was playing in
the yard, the family heard piercing cries, and
on running to investigate found the child "
ing on the ground, while on her breast stood
a rooster growing triumphsutly. One OF the
little girls eyes had been picked out.
Getting acquainted is a matter of rather I'M
usual etiquette among Boston's cultured aud